https://ideologicorgan.bandcamp.com/album/the-heart-sutra-arranged-by-janel-leppin

Anthony Pirog : guitar
Janel Leppin : cello, modified cello
Jessika Kenney : vocals
Eyvind Kang : viola
Skúli Sverrisson : bass
Doug Wieselman : clarinet, bass clarinet

Music by Susan Alcorn
Curated & arranged by Janel Leppin
nd I Wait the Resurrection of the Pedal Steel Guitar arranged by Eyvind Kang
Recorded by Bob Bellerue at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, Susan Alcorn Residency, 31 May 2012
Mixed & mastered by Mike Reina at The Brink Digital & Analog Recording Studio, Centreville VA

Suite for Ahl is dedicated to MJ Miguel Kenney
Curandera: A Woven Portrait of Susan Alcorn by Janel Leppin / Photography by David Lobato
Photos and video at IPR by Daniel Sharnoff

Thank you Stephen O'Malley and Peter Rehberg for releasing this very special concert. Lawrence Kumpf for organizing this residency & Issue Project Room for cooperation with this release. Bob Bellerue for recording the concert at IPR, Mike Reina at The Brink for mixing and mastering, Daniel Sharnoff for professional photography and video, & David Lobato for the cover photograph of Curandera. Deepest gratitude to my husband Anthony Pirog, Jessika Kenney, Eyvind Kang, Skúli Sverrisson & Doug Wieselman who played with utmost finesse.
I am forever grateful to Susan Alcorn for asking me to arrange her gorgeous and very moving music for her residency. It is an honor to call Susan both a teacher and a friend.
–Janel Leppin

Aunque su música no tiene palabras
podemos sentir su compassivo
amoroso corazón.
Maestra de las artes
una leyenda una curandera.

Trabajando, siempre trabajando
Sin goce de sueldo.
Luchando por lo que el mundo considera nada
Desplazarse mas allá de las limitaciones
brutales de la tradición.
Aquí, me siento libre.
Cuando los débiles implementos del hombre me niegan,
Enfoco el tránsito de la imaginación en el infinito y descubro mundos aún soñados.

Although her music has no words we feel her compassionate loving heart
Master of the arts, a legend, a healer
Working, always working without pay
Fighting for what the world considers to be nothing
Moving beyond the brutal limitations of tradition here, I feel free
When the feeble implements of man deny me,
I focus transit of the imagination on the infinite and discover worlds yet dreamed of.

–Lyrics by Janel Leppin (for Susan Alcorn)

Legendary pedal steel player Susan Alcorn presents her music as curated and arranged by cellist and composer Janel Leppin. This recording is from a live.......
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